Improvement in harvester-droppers



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Harvester-Drawers. I

. N0.I5 5,323. Patefited Sep t.2 2,1874.

- THE GRAPHIC comn'ro-uflusam mink 'rucemnfi UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

SYLVANUS D. LOOKE, OF HOOSICK FALLS, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTER-DROPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,323, dated September 22, 1874; appli cation filed September 4, 1873.

CASE D.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SYLvANUs D. LOCKE, of Hoosick Falls, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Binder and Dropper; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a cross-sectional elevation, representing my improvement in operative condition for dropping. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 represents the head used for binding. Fig. 4 represents the head which I prefer to use when dropping. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the detachable tail-piece for the platform. Fig. 6 is a side view or elevation of the detachable compressing-arm.

This invention relates to an improvement in automatic binders, similar to the binder patented to me 30th August, 187 0; and it consists in constructing the parts so that said apparatus may be caused to operate only as a dropper, separating the cut grain only into gavels, and delivering it upon the ground unbound.

That others may fully understand my invention, I will particularly describe it.

The general construction and operation of the binding apparatus to which I have herein shown myimprovement to be attached are fully shown in my above-mentioned patent, and in the specification, Case A, filed herewith, to which reference is hereby made for description of those parts not particularly concerned in this improvement.

A is the cradle or receptacle. B is a standard attached to one end thereof, and bearing the operative mechanism of the binder, to wit, the shaft 0, binding-arm F, and compressingarms H I.

The operation of these and their associated devices need not be described, for the'reason above given.

In order to adapt this apparatus to the separation and deposit of the unbound gavels, I make the compressor I and the binding-head G easily removable. In place of the latter I substitute the blank head K, which, when in place, also confines the end of the compressor H in a recess, h. (Shown in Fig. 4.) When so adjusted, the arm F will rotate, and at each revolution a quantity of grain in the receptacle A will be separated and moved to the rear of the cradle; but in order to effect its ready delivery upon the ground the cradle must be made shorter than for binding, and I therefore make itwith removable tail -pieces P P, separate from the remainder of the cradle, so as to permit the easy discharge of the gavel.

Having described my invention,what Iclaim as new 1s 1. In combination, the grain-receptacle and gavel-separating device of an automatic binder, when said separating device is adapted, substantially as described, to discharge the gavels unbound.

2. The receptacle A, constructed with the removable tail-sections P P, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

SYLVANUS D. LOOKE.

Witnesses:

LYN P. W001), EDWD. H. VALENTINE.

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